[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] don't link mplayer with encoding libsand allow disabling some encoders in lavc

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:55:10PM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:57:46AM +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>All this mess wouldn't be necessary if we used only pkg-config (as for 
> >>lav[cf] external),
> >>and configure would be much much cleaner.
> >
> >This assumes pkg-config works. Which on Linux systems is mostly but not
> >always true, and on Solaris, Windows and FreeBSD usually is not at all
> >the case.
> >And a broken pkg-config leads to even more complicated problems because
> >it is much harder to find out what is going on without direct access to
> >the problematic PC.
> 
> in this case a brand new ffmpeg-config seems to be the only viable
> and cross-platform option, do you agree?

No, this is nonsense. -lavc is all that's needed. If the user
installed it in a nonstandard location it's their responsibility to
add the paths. foo-config scripts are an ABOMINATION because they
break cross-compiling and cause all other sorts of nightmares for
people not using the 'standard' linux setup.

Rich